Porn's 4th Case of HIV Confirmed, With a 5th Possible, Group Says

Even as the porn industry says an HIV-related production shut-down was scheduled to end Friday, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation today said it has confirmed that a fourth performer has come up HIV-positive.

The group, which has spearheaded a law that requires condoms in porn for most of L.A. County (a rule that has largely been avoided or ignored by the business), says a fifth performer initially tested positive for HIV last week as well:

Despite the initial positive, the AHF alleges that the industry did nothing to keep Stone from working: Kenslea says he was even scheduled to perform tomorrow, a day before the production moratorium was to end.

We reached out to PASS' parent group, the industry trade organization known as the Free Speech Coalition, for comment but have yet to hear back.

The coalition has said previously that everyone who was possibly exposed to three positive performers it has identified have tested negative and that none of the transmissions appears to have happened on-set.

Dennis Romero has worked on staff at several magazines and newspapers, including the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Los Angeles Times, where he participated in Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the L.A. riots. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone online, the Guardian, and, as a
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